Uganda: Exporting Nile Perch to the West Leaves Citizens Eating Bones

1 September 2011

"Madam, buy Nile perch fish today because it might be the last time you eat it," Kalyesubula, a fish monger in Kaame valley market told me as I shopped for foodstuffs.

Kalyesubula, the sole trader of Nile perch, locally known as empuuta, says he is leaving the business and moving to something else because people are not buying the delicacy.

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